Economist.com | Bagehot: "Tony Blair has become a kind of confrontation junkie, always on the lookout for the next fix. What other explanation could there be for turning something as peripheral as university funding into a make or break issue for his premiership? In short, Mr Blair, always a bit of a drama queen, is in the grip of a form of hysteria. And when he is not high, he is down, wearied by the perpetual war of attrition waged by a chancellor increasingly impatient for his inheritance. "